This episode originally aired on October 23, 2025.
Today we’ll revisit our conversation from October 2025 with writer Michael Kleber-Diggs.
Stokes Nature Center brought in Michael Kleber-Diggs in October to headline the kickoff event to their participation in the NEA Big Read. The book Stokes Nature Center is focusing on is You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limon. Michael Kleber-Diggs was in Logan to share his work from the book and to lead a writing workshop to inspire participants to create their own works celebrating our natural world.
Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. He is the author of My Weight in Water, a memoir about his complicated relationship with lap swimming (forthcoming this year). Michael’s debut poetry collection, Worldly Things, won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Michael is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature, and he teaches creative writing at Augsburg University and through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
